ENewsletter

Reflection

A Child's Prayer for Grandparents

Dear God, please bless my grandparents.

Thank you for the life they gave my parentsand for the life they give to me.

For the ways they helped me and made me strong, I give thanks.

For the ways, they love me no matter what, I rejoice.

For the ways, they have paved the roadthat leads me here, I am grateful.

Let them grow in wisdom and joy in life.

Let them find peace and rest from their work.

Let them be healed of every sickness and pain.

And let them see with their own eyes your gloryand the love of their children and grandchildren.

Bless them always until they come to rest in you.

Greg's Message

Dear Parents and Friends of St Anne’s

In 2021, Pope Francis declared World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly, to take place annually on the fourth Sunday of July, neighboring the memorial of Sts. Joachim and Anne, the grandparents of Jesus. This was an appropriate call made by Pope Francis. I wonder if he got the idea for it from St Anne’s, Kew East, as we have been celebrating Grandparents Day on July 26 (the feast day of St Anne and St Joachim) for decades! I am looking forward to a great day this Wednesday as we celebrate St Anne, St Joachim and our grandparents, beginning with mass at 9:30am. Speaking of mass, our Year 4 students have been busily preparing for Eucharist on July 29. Please keep our Eucharist candidates in your prayers. Finally, next week Netitia Postans is taking long service leave. Consequently our next newsletter will be produced on Friday August 4.

NAPLAN

During the week we received our Year 3 and 5 Naplan 2023 results. Once again the school has achieved outstanding results.

I will elaborate further in the next newsletter.

PARENT-TEACHER- STUDENT EXCHANGES

I hope that parents found these exchanges beneficial. Many thanks to the teachers for facilitating these conferences.

ITALIAN DAY

Students really enjoyed the Italian Day held last Wednesday. They participated in traditional Italian games, art, dance, pizza making and biscuit decorating. The children also enjoyed the afternoon performance…. Thanks to the staff for their input on the day. Special thanks to Antonella Liberale and Lisa Redmond for their thorough organisation of the day.

ATHLETICS

We held our athletics trials last Tuesday. The weather certainly challenged us but we completed all of our events. We will now use the data from the trials to formulate a team for the North Balwyn District Athletics Carnival, set down for September 4.

Italian Day

ITALIAN DAY

On Wednesday 19th July we celebrated Italian Day at St Anne’s.

It was an AMAZING day and full of FUN.

GRAZIE–THANKYOU

To family and friends who attended the assembly.
To the students for dressing up in such GREAT costumes. FANTASTICO!
To Lisa Redmond for helping me organise Italian Day.
To all staff members for dressing up and organising so many FUN activities.
Grazie, Grazie to Emilia Venneri (Sienna’s nonna 2/3) and to
Alisia Romanin (Jonathan’s mamma F/1). It was great making PIZZELLE together and then sharing them with the whole school. They were deliziose!!
To Rob Lauritsen (Ava’s papa` F/1) for helping make pizza.
Grazie to the Italian Team - Grace, Beth, Zoey, Audrey, Harry and Lucas. Bravi Bravi.
We also had GELATO and The Magician LUIGI ZUCCHINI, he was INCREDIBLE!.

A FANTASTIC DAY WAS HAD BY ALL.

BUONA GIORNATA:

Signora Antonella

Grandparents Day

Grandparents’ Day this year will be celebrated on Wednesday 26 July. It is a wonderful day at St Anne's where we celebrate the beautiful bond between our students and their Grandparents, culminating in the famous Morning Tea!

All Grandparents and Special Persons in your child's life are invited to join us for a special mass at 9.30am followed by some time in the classroom with students, a visit to the library with the opportunity to donate/dedicate a new book to the school, and to enjoy a wonderful morning tea spread in the MPH!

No need for payment but please RSVP so that catering requirements can be met.

Wednesday 26 July 2023 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

LOCATION

St Anne's School Kew East Multi-Purpose Hall

Beresford St, Kew East

Closing date for RSVP (free tickets) to be booked via the Trybooking link is Friday 21 July 9:00 PM

https://www.trybooking.com/CJHQU

for Grandparents' Day

Volunteer opportunities for "Grandparents' Day Wednesday 26th July 2023" are now open. We require assistance for setting up, packing up, serving food and in the library for book purchasing.

Please click on the following web link (or copy it into your web browser if clicking doesn't work) to go to the signup sheet:

volunteersignup.org/KAEK3

To sign up, just follow the instructions on the page. It only takes a few seconds to do.

Thank you for volunteering! Georgia & Alisia

georgia.nery@outlook.com

Grandparents Day - Library

Faith and Social Justice

Father John Salvano's 40th Ordination

All are welcome to join the St Anne & St Bede Parish in celebrating Father John Salvano's 40th Anniversary Ordination.

If you would like to make a contribution towards a gift, you may leave it at the school office.

EUCHARIST TIMELINE

Our Year 4 Eucharist timeline is:

Sat July 29: First Eucharist 5pm at St Anne’s

ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY WINTER DRIVE

St Vincent de Paul Society are once again conducting their annual Winter Drive. St Anne’s School has been an enormous supporter of this drive for many decades. Vinnies are seeking donations of warm clothing, non-perishable foods and toiletries. These donations will be distributed locally and through the East Melbourne, Richmond and Fitzroy areas that comprise high-rise accommodation that house a significant number of refugees and others experiencing severe hardship. Boxes will be placed outside the classroom doors - I thank you for your support. The final day for donations is Friday 28 July.